Process of making fuel mixtures



Patented Feb t, 1930 I v p 197469172 f PAUL E WEBB AND RAN A. wan- ,101 nnirniisns o rryl, KANSAS I r rnoonss orQMAKIne- F EI; Migrates i li o Drawing. Application filed May' 'Y IlJQQQ SeriaI NoI Thisinvention relates to a method of propentangeizpressed' bythe empiricalformula ducing a fuel mixture, and s more pan, as OJ-I fPentane 1s found in nature'in' .ticularly directed to the fuel employed in enormousquantltres, as p'etroleum or'mineral connection with oil burners, described and n aphtha, and is also'found in nature with 5 claimed in I our co-pending applicatiomfiSeother pariafiins. It is-normally a colorless '55 V f rial #257 ,7 65, filed Feb. 28, 1928. v ,7 liquid, boiling"at'37 C; which i'siinsolublein preparation of the gas for commercial pun saturated with thejlrydrocarbon:

Acetylene gas is formed usually by the water, but soluble in 'alcohohetherland other 1 action ofwater on calcium carbide whichat organic liquids, and; when acetyleneg'as is best is a' rather expensive method for the passed through pentafne', said gas willb'ecome poses. Where it is possible to utilize a'cheap The simplest-member oftheacetyleneseries hydrocarbon for the saturation of the acetywhich'is in the; form of a gas such as ace'ty lene; I 7 p 7 lene gas with a sufficient-quantity of the hyhaving the empirical fOrmulaC H' is passeddrocarbon vapors tonot only maintain com+ through the liquid .pentane whereby apredee" v bustion' but to provide a complement of term ned quantity "of the pentane willb 65 i B. t. u.s,' a fuel is obtained ,which' may be taken up; b-yz'the gas which actsasavehicle, consumed at a cost considerably below the At the time of thepassi'ng'of the acetylene 7 cost of'the dry acetylene gas; gas throughthe pentane, itis probable that :An object of the present invention is the nocheinicale'ffect takes place, but a physical Y I provision of a fuel formed of acetylene gas rel ti n' xi-s t h i fiv g s and one of the saturated hydro-carbons which theva orsj of the pentane SO that when the have been so blended" that when burned a new fuel composed ofthe gas' and pentane .fiame will be produced which will not give vapors in the properpIQpOTtiM S, is ign'ited, ff a arbo oxid s aicom'plete"combustion will take place. Anotherobject of the invention is the 'pro- 1 116130 the f that hey a ty ne/gas has 75 a vision of a processfor producing a fuelfor a enden'cy'to absorb toogreat a quantityof combininga hydro-carbon of the acetylene the pentane, "for an efficient combustioniof'. I

series with one'ofthe'unsaturated hy'dro-carthe'miXtu'r Ofthe cetyl ne gas and p ne",

b0ns,preferably1a lower member of theseries, predetermined' quantity ofdryiacetylene i I whereby a fuel'is produced having predeter- '15 named directly withthe pentane saturated 7 mined proportions of the two elements so intylene igas'Lwhile-being "supplied to the corporat'ed-that the, composition will act in 11r '1eI'SfOr'definitely controlling thepro'pon' all respects as if it were formed of a simpletions of the mixturenecessary for complete compound and will sustain combustionwith-wg combustion of the product. 1

: 5 out the production ofv carbon monoXide ,eand- It is 'computed that two hundred (200) i a Cost n id abl b 1 th t df the dry" pounds of calciunicarbide containsap'proxigas of theacetylene series. imately one million three hundred and fifty V Th's invention will be'best understood from thousand (1,350,000 )TB. uQs, while one (1) i a consideration of the following detailed de-f gallonof pentan'e contains one hundred and 7 scripti'on; nevertheless, it is to be understood ten-thousand 110,00O)'B.- t. u.s. By em- 1 9-.

that the invention'is not confined to the dis-c Qploying approximately forty nine(49%) per closure being susceptible of such changes and cent-of thetwohundred (200) pounds ofcale;

modifications as shallvdefine no material de- ,cium carbide-in connectionwi-th .fiftjnone parture from the salient features-of-thein- (51%) percent of 'p'en'tane' which amounts 0 ventionlas expressed in the" appendedclaims. to approximately six' and four tenths K614) In carrying out our invention 'afchamber galleria: it is found that 0ne 'million three Of any suitable dimensionsis employed which ,l hundred and fifty thousand 1 ,350,000) "B? contains a predetermined quantityof one of V t; u.s, are obtained; In other words ninety-f the lower members ofthe'homologous series eight (98) pounds of calcium carbide con:

it of the unsaturated hydrocarbons, preferably tain's si x hundredsiitty-one thousand and five m Y hundred (661,500) B. t. u.s, while the six and four-tenths (6.4:) gallons of pentane contain six hundred eighty-eight thousand and five hundred (688,500) B. t. us, thereby totalling one million three hundred and fifty thousand (1,350,000) B. t. u.s orthe number of the t. u.s contained in two hundred (200) pounds of calcium Carbide. As an economical fuel it will be found that by the use of the 10 acetylene gas inconnection with pentane in the proper quantities which contain together the one million three'hundred'and fifty thousand (1,350,000) B. t. u.s,'a great saving is had, due to the fact that the cost of the penw tane and the calcium carbide which is neces-" sary to be employed with a predetermined quantity of pentane is approximately one half of the cost of two hundred (200) pounds of calcium carbide, which is the equivalent in; B. t. u.s to the ninety-eight (98) pounds of calcium carbide and the six and four tenths (6.4) gallons of pentane. V l/Vhile pentane has been particularly stated as the liquidchydrocarbon to be employed,

other hydrocarbons of the same series may bemixed with the pentane in various proportions which will obtain approximately the same results. Therefore, it is possible to have a mixture of various hydrocarbons of the same series of the general formula C H such as the following :C H C H (L l-L These hydrocarbons may be mixed in equal quantities and usually contain approximately three (3%) per cent of the hydrocarbon designed by (LE and C H The hydrocarbon of the paraffin series normally contains about ninety-seven (97%) per cent pentane and three per cent of -cere tain otherof the hydrocarbons of the paraffin series. 7 V 7 The wet acetylene gas when properly proportioned gives a very efiioient fuel for use in a welding torchwhen employed under fifteen (15) pounds pressure or less. e Te claim 1. A method of producing fuel which comprises passing acetylene gas through pentane, whereby the acetylene gas will act as a vehicle for carrying predetermined quantities of the pentane and then modifying the mixture of] theacetylene gas and pentane with pure acet- 'ylene gas. j

2. A method of manufacturing a fuel which comprises passin acetylene gas through a liquid hydrocarbon of the parafiin series and then thoroughly mixing a predetermined 7 quantity of dry acetylene gas with the mixture formed bypassing the acetylene gas through the liquid hydrocarbon. V i

Signed at Arkansas City'in the county of V Cowley, and State of Kansas this 1st day of .May,A.D.'1928. 7' g -w; 1

PAUL E. WEBB.

6 l i FRANK A; WEBB. 

